The impressive exhibition was opened this week by Dr Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, Head of Italian Department Trinity College and author of Patterns in Dante and a full publication cataloguing the entire series was also launched.

Walsh’s interpretation of the first book of The Divine Comedy—‘The Inferno’—comprises of 34 paintings relating to the book’s 34 Cantos. ‘The Purgatorio’ inspired seven Cornice paintings and the series is completed by one large, multi-part painting based on third book—‘The Paradiso’. “The final product represents to me the way I have been working for many years. Sequences, sets, series, etc. call them what you like; this is what fascinates me in my daily activities in my studio,” said Mr Walsh.

“How one permutation leads to another, how one painting makes another painting, how, just when I’m on top of the whole thing the idea stops, quite dramatically. A whole new series suggests itself by a coincidental set of circumstances.”

Mr Walsh was born in London to Irish parents and lives and works in County Clare. He studied at Limerick School of Art and Design and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

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